AUDIO-VISUAL NAVIGATION AND COMMUNICATION DYNAMIC MEMORY ARCHITECTURES

• US 20090083396A1
• Filed: 09/26/2008
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AQ Media, Inc.
• Original Assignee: AQ Media, Inc.
• Inventors: Roos, Jan Peter
• Granted Patent: US 7,797,402 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/162 Interface to dedicated audio devices, e.g. audio drivers, interface to CODECs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/20 3D [Three Dimensional] animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/00 Three dimensional [3D] modelling, e.g. data description of 3D objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/003 Navigation within 3D models or images
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

Buffering data associated with a spatial publishing object data store at a buffer distance proximate a user presence in a spatial publishing object space. The buffer distance comprises a measure based at least in part on: capacity of a communications path between the data store and the user platform; availability of memory at the user platform; movement of a user presence through the space; traffic in the communications path; processing resources available; amount of objects within a distance of the user presence; amount of objects in the space; type of objects; proximity of objects to the user presence; and rate of the user presence movement in the space. Movement of the user presence in the space buffers data such that data for a proximate object is available in the buffer for presenting to the user when the user'"'"'s presence is a predetermined distance from the proximate object.

Claims

1. A method of buffering, on a user platform, data associated with a spatial publishing object data store, the method comprising:

determining a buffer distance measured from a user presence in a spatial publishing object space, wherein the buffer distance is based at least in part on at least one of;

capacity of a communications path between the spatial publishing object data store and the user platform;

an availability of memory at the user platform;

traffic measures in the communications path;

processing resources available at the user platform;

amount of spatial publishing objects within a distance of the user presence;

amount of spatial publishing objects in the spatial publishing object space;

type of spatial publishing objects;

proximity of at least one spatial publishing object to the user presence; and

a movement vector of the user presence in the spatial publishing object space;

buffering data on the user platform for those spatial publishing objects within the buffering distance;

wherein a movement of the user presence in the spatial publishing object space initiates the background buffering of spatial publishing object data such that spatial publishing object data for a proximate spatial publishing object in the spatial publishing object space is available in the buffer for presenting to the user when the user'"'"'s presence is a predetermined distance from the proximate spatial publishing object.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

measuring the movement of the user presence through the spatial publishing object space comprises a vector, the vector comprising at least one of a rate of movement and a direction of movement.

3. A method of buffering, on a user platform, data associated with a spatial publishing object data store, the method comprising:

buffering spatial publishing object data at a buffer distance proximate a user presence in a communication space, wherein the buffer distance comprises a measure based at least in part on a measure of at least one of;

a capacity of a communications path between the spatial publishing object data store and the user platform;

an availability of memory at the user platform;

a characteristic of traffic in the communications path;

processing resources available at the user platform;

an amount of spatial publishing objects within a distance of the user presence;

an amount of spatial publishing objects in the spatial publishing object space;

a type of spatial publishing objects; and

a proximity of a spatial publishing object to the user presence;

establishing an order for a plurality of spatial publishing objects;

arranging the spatial publishing objects about a location based on the order; and

buffering spatial publishing object data associated with the arranged plurality of spatial publishing objects within a predetermined distance from the user presence.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the spatial publishing objects are spirally arranged about the location.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein arranging the spatial publishing objects comprises:

arranging a first subset of spatial publishing objects in a first two dimensional plane of a three dimensional space; and

arranging a second subset of spatial publishing objects in a second two-dimensional plane of the three dimensional space.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first subset is before the second subset in the established order.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the first two-dimensional plane is parallel to the second two-dimensional plane.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein arranging the spatial publishing objects comprises positioning each spatial publishing object near the location, whereby an earlier ordered spatial publishing object is closer to the location than a later ordered spatial publishing object.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein arranging the spatial publishing objects comprises positioning a first subset of spatial publishing objects near the location and a second subset of spatial publishing objects farther from the location, whereby the first subset is earlier ordered than the second subset.

10. In a system for allowing movement of a user presence through a computer-implemented spatial publishing object space, in which publishing spatial publishing objects retrieved from a data store are buffered in a user platform for display, a method of buffering data associated with the publishing spatial publishing object data store, the method comprising:

buffering data associated with each spatial publishing object in a spatial publishing object space that is within a buffer distance of a user presence in the spatial publishing object space,

wherein the buffer distance comprises a measure selected from the group consisting of;

a capacity of a communications path between the data store and the user platform;

an availability of memory at the user platform;

movement of the user presence through the spatial publishing object space;

a characteristic of traffic in the communications path;

processing resources available at the user platform;

amount of spatial publishing objects within a distance of the user presence;

amount of spatial publishing objects in the spatial publishing object space;

type of spatial publishing objects;

proximity of the spatial publishing objects to the user presence;

internet bandwidth; and

rate of movement of the user presence in the spatial publishing object space.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the measure of movement of the user presence through the spatial publishing object space comprises a vector, the vector comprising at least one of a rate of movement and a direction of movement.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the measure of processing resources comprises at least one of the group consisting of threads and cores.

13. In a system for allowing movement of a user presence through a computer-implemented spatial publishing object space, in which publishing spatial publishing objects retrieved from a data store are buffered in a user platform for display, a method for limiting the maximum rate of movement of the user presence in the spatial publishing object space, the method comprising the steps of:

limiting the maximum rate of movement of the user presence to manage buffering of spatial publishing objects in proximity to the user presence and information communication upon arrival of the user presence in the proximity of a bordering spatial publishing object,

wherein a rate limit of the vector is based at least in part on at least one or more measure of at least one of;

a capacity of a communications path between the data store and the user platform;

an availability of memory at the user platform;

movement of the user presence through the spatial publishing object space;

a characteristic of traffic in the communications path;

processing resources available at the user platform;

amount of spatial publishing objects within a distance of the user presence;

amount of spatial publishing objects in the spatial publishing object space;

type of spatial publishing objects;

proximity of the spatial publishing objects to the user presence;

internet bandwidth; and

rate of movement of the user presence in the spatial publishing object space.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the measure of movement of the user presence through the spatial publishing object space comprises a vector, the vector comprising at least one of a rate of movement and a direction of movement.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the measure of processing resources comprises at least one of the group consisting of threads and cores.

16. In a system for allowing movement of a user presence through a computer-implemented spatial publishing object space, in which spatial publishing objects retrieved from a data store are buffered in a user platform for display, a method of applying a rating factor to the buffering performance of a user platform to speed the calculation of a rate limit for movement of the user presence within the space, the method comprising the steps of:

computing a speed with which spatial publishing object buffers can be filled;

wherein the rating factor computation is based at least in part on one or more measures of at least one of;

a capacity of a communications path between the data store and the user platform;

an availability of memory at the user platform;

movement of the user presence through the spatial publishing object space;

a characteristic of traffic in the communications path;

processing resources available at the user platform;

amount of spatial publishing objects within a distance of the user presence;

amount of spatial publishing objects in the spatial publishing object space;

type of spatial publishing objects;

proximity of the spatial publishing objects to the user presence;

internet bandwidth; and

rate of movement of the user presence in the spatial publishing object space.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein spatial publishing objects, upon user connection, are placed in the communication space surrounding at least one of the user spatial publishing object and master publishing spatial publishing object, the placement made in a layer-by-layer wrapping fashion.

19. The method according to claim 16, in which the layer-by-layer wrapping fashion comprises placement first next to, then above, and then below, in the communication space.

17. In a system for allowing movement of a user presence through a computer-implemented spatial publishing object space, in which spatial publishing objects retrieved from a data store are buffered in a user platform for display, a method of applying a rating factor to the buffering performance of a user platform to speed the calculation of a rate limit for movement of the user presence within the space, the method of applying comprising a method of buffering, on the user platform, and within the spatial publishing object space, data from spatial publishing objects to create user communication space buffers, separate from the spatial publishing object space buffers, the method comprising:

buffering data from spatial publishing objects to which the user presence creates a connection, wherein the buffering takes place and remains persistent from the creation of the connection, wherein the buffering is based at least in part on a measure of at least one of;

a capacity of a communications path between the data store and the user platform;

an availability of memory at the user platform;

movement of the user presence through the spatial publishing object space;

a characteristic of traffic in the communications path;

processing resources available at the user platform;

amount of spatial publishing objects within a distance of the user presence;

amount of spatial publishing objects in the spatial publishing object space;

type of spatial publishing objects;

proximity of the spatial publishing objects to the user presence;

internet bandwidth; and

rate of movement of the user presence in the spatial publishing object space.

20. In a system for allowing movement of a user presence through a computer-implemented spatial publishing object space, in which spatial publishing objects retrieved from a data store are buffered in a user platform for display, a method of applying a rating factor to the buffering performance of a user platform to speed the calculation of a rate limit for movement of the user presence within the space, the method comprising a method of buffering, on the user platform, data from a communication space, the method comprising:

buffering data from each spatial publishing object in a communication space that is within a buffer distance of a user presence in the communication space,

wherein the buffer distance is based at least in part on a measure at least one of;

a capacity of a communications path between the data store and the user platform;

an availability of memory at the user platform;

movement of the user presence through the spatial publishing object space;

a characteristic of traffic in the communications path;

processing resources available at the user platform;

amount of spatial publishing objects within a distance of the user presence;

amount of spatial publishing objects in the spatial publishing object space;

type of spatial publishing objects;

proximity of the spatial publishing objects to the user presence;

internet bandwidth; and

rate of movement of the user presence in the spatial publishing object space.

21. A computer-implemented method for establishing communication between a subject entity and at least one of a plurality of object entities, the method comprising the steps of:

providing the subject entity with a display of the object entities, the object entities comprising spatial publishing objects, wherein the spatial publishing objects are represented on the display in response to a selection of the user and the display represents the spatial publishing objects in an arrangement comprising at least three dimensions, and wherein the subject entity comprises a user;

providing the user with a presence with respect to the display having auditory and visual fields for receipt of audio and visual information from the spatial publishing objects, the user presence optionally capable of being represented in the display relative to the spatial publishing objects;

accepting navigation input from the user with respect to the arrangement of the spatial publishing objects; and

based on the navigation input from the user, re-arranging the positions of the spatial publishing objects in the at least three dimensions with respect to the presence of the user in the display.

22. The method according to claim 21, further comprising the steps of

computing measures of proximity of the user with respect to at least a subset of the spatial publishing objects.

23. The method according to claim 21, wherein the selection of the user comprises the conduct of a search.

24. The method according to claim 22, further comprising the step of:

presenting audio information from a plurality of the subset of spatial publishing objects to the user, the presentation and at least one of the characteristics of the presentation based at least in part on a respective measure of proximity of each of the plurality of spatial publishing objects relative to the user, wherein the user is presented with one or more audio fields that fade in as they become closer to the user and fade out as they become further from the user.

25. A computer program product, disposed on a computer-readable medium, the producing including instructions for causing a processor to perform at least the following:

providing the subject entity with a display of the object entities, the object entities comprising spatial publishing objects, wherein the spatial publishing objects are represented on the display in response to a selection of the user and the display represents the spatial publishing objects in an arrangement comprising at least three dimensions, and wherein the subject entity comprises a user;

providing the user with a presence with respect to the display having auditory and visual fields for receipt of audio and visual information from the spatial publishing objects, the user presence optionally capable of being represented in the display relative to the spatial publishing objects;

accepting navigation input from the user with respect to the arrangement of the spatial publishing objects; and

based on the navigation input from the user, re-arranging the positions of the spatial publishing objects in the at least three dimensions with respect to the presence of the user in the display.

26. The computer program product according to claim 25, further comprising the steps of:

computing measures of proximity of the user with respect to at least a subset of the spatial publishing objects.

27. The method according to claim 25, wherein the selection of the selection of the user comprises the conduct of a search.

28. The method according to claim 26, further comprising the step of presenting audio information, from a plurality of the subset of spatial publishing objects, to the user, the presentation and at least one of the characteristics of the presentation based at least in part on a respective measure of proximity of each of the plurality of spatial publishing objects relative to the user, wherein the user is presented with one or more audio fields that fade in as they become closer to the user and fade out as they become further from the user.